The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-06
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The Two Parties in the Late
Congress.
A CONGRESSMAN'S VIEWS.
= Adieu, Mr.. sr!"-Last
Days of the Session Catching
the Speakers Eye
CONGRESSMAN'S VIEWS.
WAsHISeroS, D. G., Feb. %, 1887.

WARRINGTON, D. c., Feb. %, 1887.
From Our Own correspondent.
The last days of the session are here,
accompanied by the usual hustle and
excitement on the part of those who
would like TO see certain measures
become law. Many. however, will
experience disappointment in this
respect. Pet schemes of every descrip-
ton will have to go over. Tons of bills
will be thrown into the waste basket,
and the work of their consideration and
passage Will require to be gone over
again during the Fiftieth or some other
subsequent Congress. The next Con-
gress will contain great deal of new
material. Many members who have
occupied seats in the Fort ninth Con-
gress will have to search in another
direction for living, they having been
retired by their constituents in favor of
other men.
The record of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress cannot be designated as glorious.
From beginning to end much important
| legislation, owing to the factions which
exist in the ranks of the Democratic
! party, has been shirked. Much has
been done that might have been left
undone, and much has not been done
that the country has demanded ought to
be done.
What do you think, - I inquired of a
prominent Congressman in the lobby of
the Willard Hotel the other evening,
will be the verdict of the country at
the next general election when the work
of the Forty-ninth Congress is taken
into considerations" We'll" he said
1.-The Democrats have had two years in
which to make some kind of showing.
They have had Democratic President,
and Democratic House, and one would
have thought that they would have
| tried in some shape'or form TO respond
to the wishes of the country. Up to the
present moment [ know of nothing that
can be set down to their credit, SO far as
the enactment of important legislation
is concerned. The Republicans are a
| long way ahead in their endeavor to do
something in that direction. Here are
| the last days of the session. What is
the result? The Senate having app:opri-
ated $59,000,0e0 in round figures, for
| coast defense cruisers, an d ordnance,
and showed themselves willing to place
| that amount of money at the disposal
of a Democratic administration, has
shown that the Republicans have the
good OF the country at heart, and are
willing, for the time being, to drop par
tisan feeling. Improve the country
! before party, seems 10 be their motto.
Now, if a Democratic House fails to
respond in the most liberal manner and
meet the Republican Senate in the same
liberal spirit. the country, of course,
will hold the Democrats responsible,
which means that the end of the
present administration will witness the
collapse of the Democratic party in this
country. The President is an honest,
sincere, straightforward man. He has
shown a disposition to rise above party
matters in these mOmentous questions.
Irresponsible because the party he
represents failed to do their duty. It is
an open secret that the President and
every member of the Cabinet are
earnestly in favor of liberal appropria-
tons on the part of Congress for coast
defense, ordnance supplies, and grand
navy. And so, it can be safely stated,
are the Republican majority in the Sen
ate, and the Republican minority in the
! House. Failure now, on the part OF the
Democracy, to respond to the country s
demands means certain defeat IN 1888.
On the contrary, should the House act
in a liberal and patriotic spirit, nothing
on earth can prevent the denomination
of Mr.. Cleveland next year, and
another victory for the Democratic
party. The issue of 1888 is being made
up to-day in the present Congress, and
both parties will go before the country
next year with a plain, unyarnlshed
statement of what has been accom-
plished. Ths Republicans in Congress
can point with pride to the record they
have made as patriots n behalf OF their
! country The Democracy must neces-
sariIy remain quiet; because the record
will show that they have accomplished
absolutely nothing. That is the ISSUE
aud it will be fought out on that lins
next year If, however, should the bill,
providing such large sum for coast
defence, etc. pass Congress and reach
the President, and he approves Oft, he
will De condemned by a certain faction
of his party. If he vetoes it, he Will be
condemned by another faction OF his
party; but should he approve, he will
make a tremendous inroad IN the ranks
of the Republican party, and gain in
every section of the country, all of which
means something detrimental to the
Republican party"
was struck with the truth of the
gentlen,an's reply. The Democrats had
Better 10 K to their laurels, and dc
| something that will ensure certain
victory in November, 1888, when one OF
the most determined political struggles
will take place that has ever occurred in
this country.
I The last days Of the session make busy
times for the President. his tasks one
of the hardest that can be imagined. de
is compelled to be at his desk early in
the morning, and he never finishes work
before midnight. As 1 have often
remarked he is gleat worker. He
trusts nothing to anybody else that he
can do himself. He carefully reads all
the bills. and writes his own vetoes,
a. obar1r;ar The HumOaP OF bills he